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Create virtual devices for app testing

Create virtual devices for app testing

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Create virtual devices for app testing

- [Instructor] After installing the Intel HAXM Software, you're ready to create and use virtual devices. You can get to the virtual device dialog from the welcome screen by clicking Configure and then AVD Manager. Or if you have an application already open, you can go to the menu and choose Tools and then AVD Manager. And either way you'll end up in this dialog. If you already have virtual devices created, you'll see them listed here. But otherwise, just click on Create Virtual Device. Each virtual device has a hardware profile and a system image. The hardware profile determines the size and pixel density of the screen you're looking at. And the system image determines the version of Android. There are many categories here, one for phone and one for tablet. But there are also devices available for Wear OS that's watches, TV for Android TV, and Automotive for Android Auto. I'm going to be creating a simple phone device.…

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